DAILY NATION Tuesday May 5, 2015 Business News 37 Wananchi Telecom expands range of products with eye on SMEs BY NATION CORRESPONDENT Wananchi Telecom has diversified its range of fibre optic products to support the country’s growing small and medium enterprises. Company Chief Operating SALATON NJAU | NATION Wananchi Telecom Chief Operating Officer Tony Wood addresses the media at the Stanley in Nairobi yesterday. Officer for Kenya Tony Wood said the products, dubbed SimbaBiz have low-cost Internet and malware protection. The idea is to cash in on investment in fibre and pass on the savings to customers. “SME’s don’t always have the IT skills and resources MARITIME | Project to complement ferry services Cable car to ease traffic across Likoni Channel Planned system expected to cut period spent getting across by three times BY LABAN ROBERT @mokeiralaban mokeiralaban@gmail.com a third of the time across starting January 2017, after completion of a Sh3.6 billion cable car project. Kenya Ferry Services Managing P Director Hassan Musa said the cars, which will be running on a 500-metre wire, will help ease human and vehicular traffic by complementing ferries. Less than three minutes “When the project is commissioned, travel time between the island and the mainland, which takes about 10 minutes, will take less than three minutes; a massive improvement for the people that are commuting between the two points,” he said. “With a capacity of 11,000 com- muters per hour in both directions, tourists to and from South Coast will no longer be delayed,” Mr Musa said yesterday. More than 300,000 passengers and 6,000 vehicles cross the channel daily, which is the only way connecting Mombasa Island to the South Coast mainland. Construction of the path is expected to start in September and be ready for commissioning by December 2016. Cable cars will be running 100 metres above and concurrently with ferries, a factor that Mr Musa said will “offer panoramic views of the assengers moving into and out of Mombasa Island through the Likoni Channel will spend only entire Mombasa”. The fast movement of people, goods and vehicles is also expected to stimulate economic growth and tourism at the Coast. “The project, when complete, is expected to contribute to the region’s economic development including creation of jobs during both construction and operations phase, facilitation of increased development in and around the Likoni District, and tax contribution to the exchequer,” Mr Musa said. The project is sponsored by Trapos Limited, which has contracted Doppelmayr to provide technology. Doppelmayr is a Swiss/Austrian specialist company that manufactures chair lifts, cable cars, gondolas, surface tows for ski and amusement parks as well as urban transport systems. Mr Musa said CFC Stanbic Bank will fund the project as per the concession agreement between Likoni Cable Express and Kenya Ferry Services. 3.6 billion 300,000 Home Afrika signs Sh2 billion deal BY NATION CORRESPONDENT Home Afrika has signed a Sh2 billion ($23 million) deal with Egyptian firm Wadi Degla to develop the second half of an 18-hole golf course, set up a club house and stadium. Work on the projects at its flagship Migaa gated property development in Kiambu County is expected to start in June following entry of the Egyptian company. Wadi Degla is to develop the remaining nine holes of the course to the tune of $2 million (Sh186 million). Proposed arena An additional $20 million (Sh1.8 billion) is to be used in constructing the club house and the proposed arena. Home Afrika chief execu- tive Njoroge Ng’ang’a told the Nation that a partnership agree- ment was being structured but it would be a long term concession. “They are coming in as partners in the construction of the club house on seven acres, build a stadium that will accommodate all sporting facilities on a 13-acre piece of land and develop the remaining part of the golf course,” Mr Njoroge said adding; “This is just the beginning of building this partnership, which will be long term in nature”. Kenya Registered Perioperative Nurses (KRPoN) Diploma in Clinical Medicine & Surgery Diploma in Community Health to be able to compete online effectively, so, these product bundles allow them to market themselves globally,” Mr Wood said in Nairobi yesterday. The package is delivered on the firm’s fibre infrastructure that provides triple play services — voice, Internet and television services linked to businesses using a single cable. SimbaBiz comes in three packages of eight, 16 and 32 megabytes per second Internet speed. They contain web hosting, domain name, Internet pro- tocol (IP) telephony, cyber security threat management, cloud disaster recovery, TV and free conference call. 2,000 The number of kilometres that the company’s fibre optic cable has so far covered Wananchi Telecom fibre infrastructure has been completed in Nairobi and is being rolled out in Mombasa, with plans to expand to the remaining 45 counties in the course of the year. The company has invested more than Sh2 billion in its grid in the past few years, laying a 2,000-kilometre fibre network that it uses to offer services on Zuku. Through SimbaNet, the firm’s provider of telecommunication services, there are plans to capture the East African Market with specific interests in SMEs, government and NGOs. The product has been in the market for 18 months before its official launch, with 2,000 customers connected. AIC KIJABE COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES JULY AND SEPTEMBER 2015 INTAKE The College has been in existence for the last 34 years, Invites the applicants for the following courses:Course Minimum Requirement KRN/ KRM/ KRCHN/ BSCN C Plain (KCSE), C Plain in English and Biology, C(Minus) in either Math/Chemistry/Physics C PLAIN, C- in English or Kiswahili, C- in Biology or Biological Sciences and a C- in any other science subject. OR A certificate in Community Health, Community Development, Environmental health or a certificate in any other health course from accredited institution. Vacancy: Clinical Medicine Lecturer. Holders of Bachelors of Science in Clinical Medicine can send their applica on to the following address Email: recruit.kh@kijabe.net/ recruit.kijabe@gmail.com Applications should be sent on or before: 30th June 2015 The Principal Kijabe College of Health Sciences P.O. Box 20 Kijabe, 00220- 00220 Kijabe For further enquiries please contact: 0724476342/ 0789338062/ 0203246702 Email: ksninfo.ksn@kijabe.net, princ.ksn@kijabe.net, ksninfo14@gmail.com Duration Intake 1 year 3 years 2 years July 2015 Mode of Study Full time September 2015 Full time September 2015 Modular Amount of money in shillings that the cable project is estimated at, according to Kenya Ferry Services Number of people who cross the Likoni channel daily, in addition to 6,000 vehicles. 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